Mayor Gavin Newsom’s keynote speech to the 285 Dominican grads was that “he was the guy they were going to forget.” He reached this conclusion after asking his staff who their keynote speakers were. The person introducing him, however, made sure they knew who he was. Young Mayor who did this and that….oh and he is running for Lieutenant Governor. The bulk of his speech at the San Rafael campus in Marin County centered on how success comes after learning from their failures and invoked a quote from Winston Churchill. A source tells me, however that he did not mention any of his “failures” to illustrate the point.
Rigoberto Hernandez is a journalism student at San Francisco State University. He has interned at The Oregonian and The Orange County Register, but prefers to report on the Mission District. In his spare time he can be found riding his bike around the city, going to Giants games and admiring the Stable building.
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This is what is wrong with “journalism” and “sources” and “accountability” these days. The “going to forget me” remark by Newsom followed an opening where Newsom explained that he asked his staffers if they remembered their commencement speaker and what their commencement speaker said the day they graduated and, Newsom laughed, not a single one of them remembered who it was and what they said. Therefore, Newsom theorized that Dominican’s graduates would forget him.
It was a funny line. You had to be there. Obviously you were not and apparently your “source” was only half there.